Improvement in wringing and mangling machines



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ARA PAINE, OF BURRILLVILLE, RHODE ISLAND.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,735, dated January16, 1872.

To allpcrsons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, ARA PAINE, of Blllllllville, of the county ofProvidence, of the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulMachine for Wringin g and Man gling Clothes 5 and do hereby declare thesame to be fully described in the following specificationapparatus, likea common wringer or squeezer,

being for use generally with a wash-tub or machine. The nature of myinvention consists in three elastic rollers, arranged and combinedtogether, and Wltlltllll boxes, carrying-frame, and pressure mechanism,and a support-bar, all substantially as hereinafter described.

In the said drawing there is shown the wringing or squeezing and mangling rollers G H I, each of which is what is termed an Indiarubberroller, formed of a tube of rubber, fixed on a shaft, they being of thecharacter of the roller of ordinary wringingmachines or wringers. Thelower or largest roller G has its shaft 1 supported on bearings m m andprovided with a crank,,u, all being as shown. Both of the other rollershave their journals supported in boxes 0 0, movable vertically withinthe posts 10 p of a frame, K, which, when the machine is in use, may beerected on a Wash-tub or the tub of a washing-machine, or may beotherwise properly arranged to receive the clothes or articles to bedeprived of water and mangled or smoothed. To their boxespressure-springs q q are applied, they being arranged on the frame K andupon rods 7 r projecting down from a cross-bar, 8, provided with aregulating-screw, t, adapted to the frame K in manner as the screw histo the bar It. In rear of the roller G, and close to it, is a horizontalcross-bar, L, the purpose of it being to support the clothes andfacilitate their introduction between the squeezerollers, as well as toprevent them from being carried underneath the roller G while it may bein the act of being turned backward.

After an article may have been washed, and while it may be in a wetstate, it is to be raised upon the bar L and introduced between theroller G and the rearmost of the two rollers H I. The crank of the shaftof the roller G being revolved forward will cause the article to bedrawn between the rollers G and the roller H, (the rearmost of the tworollers H 1,) whereby, by the conjoint action of such rollers, theliquid in the cloth or article will be expressed from it and will fallinto the tub.

The cloth or article on leaving the bite of the rollers G and H willpass into that of the rollers G and I, and after going between suchrollers will be delivered from the machine.

The roller I is the man glin g or smoothing roller. As it operates onthe cloth or article with a pressure corresponding to that which sucharticle may have had from the roller H,

it will be seen that it can have little or no material eifect indepriving the cloth or article of liquid, but performs the office ofsmoothing it. In case of a wrinkle appearing in the cloth as it maypassfrom the mangling-roller, we have only to turn back the crank so as toforce back the cloth from between the rollers. The wrinkle may next beremoved by hand. Generally speaking, it will only be necessary to forcethe cloth back a short distance, as the roller H, by its operation withthe roller G, will take out the wrinkle.

1n the above-described machine, I claim as my invention as follows:

The three elastic rollers G H I, arranged and combined together and withtheir boxes 0 o, carrying-frame K, and pressure mechanism, andsupport-bar L, all substantially as described.

ARA PAINE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow. (91)

